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<div><span style="font-sizeGeneral:medium&nbsp;">[[File:LaRissa Lawrie.jpg|frame|center]]<br/></span></div>=<div><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size'''Serving as a UIF Since:medium&nbsp;">'''Fall 2016</span></div><div> <span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa</span><span style="font-size'''School:medium;">Lawrie earned a B.A. in Strategic Communication from '''Wichita State University in 2017. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Arts in Communication from Wichita State and is set to graduate in 2019.</span></div><div> <span style="font-size:medium;"><br/>'''Status: '''Alumni</span><br /div><div> <span style="font-size:medium;"><br/>'''What she does now: '''marketing,&nbsp;</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">She was born and raised in Wichita Kansas. Her background is in technical communications and working with engineers to create technical white papers. She is currently working as a freelance journalist, strategic branding consultant, and public speaking instructor.photographer</span></div><div> <span style="font-size:medium;"><br/>'''What that means:''' She helps people craft the best narratives possible.&nbsp;</span><br /div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><br/>'''What she's passionate about:''' Accessibility</span></div><div>  <span style="font-size:medium;">Some highlights of '''Contact her UIF work includeabout:&nbsp;'''</span></div>*<span style="font-size:medium;">Helping found Shocker Startup (Wichita State’s first Teaching Design Thinking classes, navigating higher education systems, starting university innovation and entrepreneurship student organization) and in the past served as Vice President. Shocker Startup has organized multiple large speaking events at Wichita Stateclubs, hosted pitch competitions, created an alumni network of mentors to support student entrepreneursunconferences, and given away grant money to interdisciplinary student teams to fund prototypes.</span>*<span style="font-size:medium;">Giving pop-up classes and guest lectures on hosting design-thinkingcompetitions, rapid prototypingI&E curriculum, and creative confidence skills. This has served as a way to involve noncommunication-technical students in the innovation ecosystem and get them involvedrelated items like social media marketing. </span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa<br /span> <span style="font-size:medium;">has helped facilitate design thinking activities at the November Silicon Valley Meetup in 2017 and several academic conferences'''Email: '''larissa@lawriecreative. com</span><span style="font-size:medium;"/div>LaRissa</spandiv><span style="font-size:medium;">has taught over 1,500 people design thinking.</span>*<span style="font-size[[File:medium;">LaRissa</span><span style="font-size:medium;">and Hannah Hund participated in an Aggies Invent design competition at Texas A&M during the summer of 2016Lawrie. Their team took third placejpg|border|center|LaRissa Lawrie. Both jpg]]</span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa</span><span style="font-size:medium;">and Hannah decided to work to bring that style of <br /span><span style="font-size:medium;">design</span><span style="font-size:medium;"div>competition to Wichita State. In 2017, They helped organize “Mars or Bust” - a 24 design competition around space sustainability at Wichita State. In 2018, they helped bring “Invent for the Planet” to Wichita State, a global design competition in coordination with Texas A&M.&nbsp;</span><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:mediumlarge;">LaRissa</span><span style="font-size:medium&nbsp;">is Lawrie has a past President Bachelor of Lambda Pi Eta at Wichita State University - a national communications honor society. She also was awarded a writing fellowship with Salon. She is active Arts in the entrepreneurship Strategic Communication and communications communities in Wichita, she is also a member &nbsp;Master of the Arts in Communication from Wichita Professional Communicators and the National Federation of Press WomenState University.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium&nbsp;"><br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:mediumlarge;">Throughout her college careerShe was born and raised in Wichita, she has been interested in the positive effects of bringing together diverse groups of studentsKansas. </span><span style="font-size:mediumlarge;">LaRissa</span><span style="font-size:medium;">learned about University Innovation Fellows when she co-founded Shocker Startup with Wesley Alexis and Hannah HundShe is currently working on a Ph. UIF has given her the opportunity to explore how innovation and entrepreneurship can empower studentsD. </span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa’s</span><span style="font-size:medium;">passion is at in Journalism from the intersection University of communication and technology. That passion is one of the primary drivers of her work to introduce interdisciplinary studies to Wichita StateMissouri.</span></div><div><br/></div>----

<span style="font-size:mediumlarge;">If you would like to get Her background is in touch technical communication and working with&nbsp;engineers to create technical white papers. In graduate school, she worked as a freelance journalist, strategic branding consultant, and public speaking instructor</span><span style="font-size:mediumlarge;">LaRissa.</span><span style="font-size:mediumlarge;">LaRissa&nbsp;is a past President of Lambda Pi Eta at Wichita State University, feel free to email her at larissa@lawriecreativea national communication honor society. She also was awarded a journalism fellowship with Salon Media Group. LaRissa is very active in community building and entrepreneurship. She was a Venture for America Fellow and now regularly volunteers as a Venture for America Alumni.com, call her at (316) 734-9212 She is also a past member of the Wichita Professional Communicators andthe National Federation of Press Women.&nbsp;</span><div><br /or reach out on social media>[[File:Larissa speaking2. Her website is larissalawriejpg|border|Larissa speaking2.comjpg|link=Special:FilePath/Larissa_speaking2.jpg]]<br /span><br /></div>

<span style="font-size:medium;">Feel free to contact '''Some highlights of her about any or all of the followingUIF work include: Teaching Design Thinking classes, navigating higher education systems, starting university innovation and entrepreneurship clubs, unconferences, hosting design competitions, I'''&E curriculum, and communication-related items like social media marketing.</span>nbsp;=

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